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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935. PAGE TWO To Help Something Betteb Grow - . i J. 1 1 )t Batlp tar Heel The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina at.Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanks giving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matt. at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C under act of 2arch 3, 1879. Sub scription price, 13.00 for the college year. Don K. McKee .Editor A. Reed Sarratt, Jr. T. Eli Joyner- 1 Jesse Lewis .Managing Editor .Business Manager Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Associate Editors: E. L. Kahn, J. M. Smith, S. W. Babb.! Cmr Editor: C. W. Gilmore. News Editors: L. L Gardner, E. J. Hamlin, W. S. Jordan, Jr., J. F. Jonas, Jr., H. Goldberg, New ton Craig. Editorial Assistants: R. T. Perkins, Ruth Crowell, Gordon Burns, J. H. Sivertsen, V. Gilmore. Deskmen: H. H. Hirschfeld, C. O. Jeffress, R. Simon, 3. T. Elliot. m Sunday Supplement: A. H. Merrill, Director; G. w. . Gunter, Jr., J. J. Lane, R. H. Leslie, R. B. Lowery, Erika Zimmermann, E. L. Hinton, B. H. Roebuck, Elizabeth Keeler. Reporters: B. P. Dixon, Dorothy Snyder, J. B. Reese, J. K. Harrjman, R. K. Barber, J. S. Currie, Sarah Dalton, S. P. Hancock, C. .B. Hyatt, W. B. Kleeman, Mary Matthews, R. . Miller, K. V. Murphy, R. M. Pockrass, Nancy Schallert, Irene Wright, W. B. Stewart, Eliza beth Wall, Jane Wilson, M. Rosenberg, J. Han cock, J. C. McCalL Sports: R. R. Howe, Editor; J. Eddleman, L. S. Levitch, W. B. Arey, Jr., Night Editors; F. W. Ferguson, L. Rubin, H. Kaplan, E. Karlin, T. C. Tufts, W. Lindau, H. Langsam, J. Stoff, S. : :;. Rolfe, W. B. Davis, C. C; Greer, S. Wilk. Exchanges: N Kantor, E. L. Rankin, Jr., T. M. Stanback, "W: A. Sutton, Jr; ' ' V) ; Reviews : W. P. Hudson. " ; ; Art: Nell Booker, P. J. Schinhan, Jr., H. Kircher, T. B. Keys. , Photography: J. Kisner, Director; A. T. Calhoun, H. Bachrach. Business Staff Assistant Business Manager (Advertising) : Bill McLean. Assistant Business Manager (Collections) : Roy Crooks. Durham Representative: Bobby Davis. Coed Advertising Manager: Mary Lindsay; assist ants, Louise Waite, T. Daniels, Lillian Hughes, Beatrice Boyd, Virginia Burd. Local Advertising Assistants: Lewis Gordon, Bob Andrews, John Rankin, Stuart Ficklin, Milton Connor, Clen Humphrey. Office: George Harris, Jack Cheek, Rod Murchison, John Scattergood. : " - For This Issue News: Newton Craig. Sports: Will G Arey, Jr. It's Never Too Late fTWO WEEKS from tomorrow it will all be over; which is to say most of us will have finished taking examinations. Blue books are sold two for a nickle ; the larger ones cost a dime for three. The scribbling we make "in these pamphlets determines to a large extent the nature of the symbols the registrar will check against our names. Dean Hobbs prefers to call this matter recited from memory the "recapitulation" theory rather than the more graphic "regurgitation." Anyway if we are sufficiently akin to a dicta phone we can make our families proud of us. We may get that new set of reference books for Christmas. If you are one of the students who haven't studied at all during the quarter, don't worry. You can learn enough about University courses in two weeks to get by. Most students do. S. W. r, . . ; ' : . Quoting Aristotle INDIVIDUAL treatment is preferable to mass treatment no less in education than in medi cine. While it is generally true, for instance, that repose and fasting are good for a man with a fe ver, they are not always so in a particular case. Nor presumably, does a boxing instructor recom mend the same style of fighting to all his pupils. Thus it appears that a more exact education is . provided under a system of instruction adapted to individuals, since each will then be more likely to get what suits his particular case." And that was twenty hundred years ago. o What's The Use? EDITORIALS, letters and trips to the dean's of fice, and a wholesale display of campusite opin ion of education this fall quarter will result in "absolutely nothing . Our Educational Process (?) STEREOTYPED CURRICULUM SAND AND SALVE By Stuart Rabb Dean Hobbs offers suggestions in the article below to counteract herd education. The? aper Dr.H obbs Read Y esl erday So say no few friends of progress, dispairing. Convention and precedent won't be moved ; liber alities with students are impractical; the Univer sity directors will hear the slight flutter of enthu siasm, credit it to fantasia of the few, and, after it has fluttered out, settle back down to continu ing the present process . . , Perhaps the disparaging prophets are right in their predictions. But it cannot be denied that faculty committeemen on instruction, designated pioneers in keeping Carolina up to the 'progressive front in education, have willingly heard the stu dent inquiry and proposals. Suppose nothing im mediately results ? Such student zeal can not have been in vain. No progress in any field has ever come without someone's imagining . . . J. M. S. The following is Dean A. W. Hobbs' paper on what the Univer sity may do to provide fuller edu cational opportunities for above-average students. Dean Hobbs read this article yesterday before the faculty committee on instruction meeting with a group of represent ative students. This article was not written spe cifically for publication; but Dean Hobbs, who has been largely respon sible for the recent gatherings of students with the faculty commit tee on instruction has been kind enough to permit the Daily Tar Heel to print it. Ed. Note. By Dean A. W. Hobbs I hope that interested students will not get their hopes too high about what can be done by changing methods of instruction, . or changes in examination meth ods, or any other innovations. After all the student who wants to learn can do it in any sys tem. .... We hear a great deal about the regurgitation theory of edu cation. The fact is that what we are talking about is the re capitulation theory. This theory applied to "the physical side of life states that each individual lives over the life history of that part of the animal kingdom which is in his line of evolution. Thus the human embryo has at different times gill slits, long hair, etc., and has the superficial look of several other animal em bryos. This theory applied to mental development means, for example, that about 999,999 out of a million of us, if we want to learn mathematics, must go over the work of many other-people, even though it be perfectly well known and that 'our work in it may seem to be regurgitation. It is quite possible that in the cases of some few individuals the recapitulation theory may be a bad one, and that it may block' and annoy them at a time when they are capable of helping drive back the clouds of ignorance on the outskirts of human knowl edge. However there are few of this type and when they do show up there is no system in the world which will not get-out of Hhe way and let them go under their own steam. I actually have never seen one of these people though I have read about them. Above-Average Boys Then what may we hope for in the direction of improvement of the opportunities for learning on the part of those who, while not in the class of the genius are still far above the average? We have plenty in this class and we all must admit that they are the ones who need to be encouraged provided they are well adjusted individuals, who deserve to be put into high places in our so ciety. There is no use to spend much thought and time upon them until they are adjusted, as the process of forging ahead simply aggravates their malad justments. The effort in their cases should be directored to wards adjustment, and that is not likely to be a classroom prob lem so much as a problem of hu man contacts and of a joyful ac ceptance of reality. This is a problem of human education but not the one we have under dis cussion. The normal individual , who rejoices to run the race is the subject of our interest here, and we are all ready to help him if we can find out what to do for him. But even this student need not expect to avoid much of the recapitulation necessary for a successful attack upon the boun daries of knowledge. It is the impact of the knowledge already accepted upon his mind and the consequent new permutations in as many cases as possible, and the impact is worth while for the individual even if no new per mutations arise. ... Problems Not Solved The problem of what to do for the student who is willing and able to learn is not a new prob lem but it has not been solved very well anywhere. Those who really want to read with under standing significant books find the time along with the required attendance at classes. The oth ers would not do it under any. system. Li. .1 am afraid that some students are looking for an overpowering light to knock them cold in education. It does not come this way often. St. Paul said that he had an experience of this kind while he was going along the road in search of Christians to persecute, but we know nothing about it except from his own account. Learning is an exciting thing if we do not expect too much all at once. It is a source of continuous enjoy ment all through life. It is very likely that if the faculty could see enough genuine interest on the part of the students who want some special treatment by way of a free road to go ahead somewhat on their own a pro gram of this could be put to work at once. However the in terest would have to come from the students themselves and not vicariously through a Tar Heel campaign. The Tar Heel might acquaint them of the possibili ties and give encouragement to the idea, but the faculty would want some more tangible evi dence than articles in the Tar Heel critical of the present pro cedure. It would seem to me that such a venture would have chance in the Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sci ences, where the work could be reduced to a reading program with written papers to be dis cussed with some member of the staff in the department con cerned. The students would have to recognize that they were as suming the responsibility for their own education and that they might very well waste a whole year or more and have nothing at all to show for it, whereas now they can waste the year but still accumulate a few credits. In the Division of the Natural Sciences it is doubtful if BIRDS OF A FEATHER -President Roosevelt discov ered Tuesday, that other chief executives also have trouble with their families. ' As F.; D. R. began his address in Buenos Aires, a raucous voice heckled from the gallery "Down with Imperialism The heckler was' none other than Liboris Justo, son of President Justo of the. Argentine. v Young Justo is well known as a radical and is said to delight in . embarrassing his parents. Those on the inside say that he is not without a constituency in his country. , , - No doubt Mr. Roosevelt felt a reminiscent twinge when the son of his fellow president jeered. But this country will remain tolerant at least until Mrs. Simpson comes back to America. such a plan would work so well though it might very well be that some students could go along very much faster than they do now., I-should think that in all cases the best students could do a great deal more than is re : quired of the average and that they might be given this oppor tunity and have the results test ed by examinations. This is all easy to say but students left to themselves get distrustful of themselves and begin to doubt (Continued cyi last page) I :: net., j '-jiu$n J jJ run OCCASIONALLY a telephone wire must be J under a nig or carpet. The twisted wire formerly used made an unsightly ridge. So Western Electric manufacturing, distributing and purchasing unit of the Bell System produces a flat cord only one-eighth inch thick, seven-eighths of an inch wide. (Like this rrffrrp y Within this tiny space are four conductors of insulated wire. Un der the rug or carpet this cord is not seen, not even felt with bare feet. S Even to the smallest detail, the Bell System is con stantly on the lookout for the better way to make telephone service more satisfactory to the customer. College men and women find after 7P.M.a convenient time for mak ing long distance calls. Moreover, most rates are lowest then.
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